[Paraview] Legacy Format

[Amy Squillacote]

I think this is the PDF you were referencing: 
http://www.vtk.org/pdf/file-formats.pdf.  (If you go to vtk.org and 
click on the "VTK Technical Documents" link in the column on the 
left, it's the first document in the list on that page.)

- Amy

At 06:43 AM 9/16/2005, Dominik Szczerba wrote:
>there is a pdf file somewhere on the vtk webpage with a very detailed
>description of the format.
>--ds
>
>Mattijs Janssens wrote:
>
> > I use FIELD. E.g.
> >
> > POINT_DATA 882
> > FIELD attributes 2
> > p 1 882 float
> > ..
> > U 3 882 float
> > ..
> >
> >
> > (never tried the xml format though)
> >
> > Paul Wells wrote:
> >
> >> I am modifying a CFD code to write unstructured grid results in
> >> legacy vtk format. The type of output data is quite simple: an
> >> unstructured surface mesh of arbitrary polygon cells with a number of
> >> scalar properties assigned to each cell.
> >>
> >> I have completed the geometry part no problem, but I cannot find (or
> >> at least cannot understand what I have found!) a good description of
> >> the file format for the data.
> >>
> >> Should I use repeated blocks of CELL_DATA, SCALARS. or should I use a
> >> FIELD, with each scalar in one array of the field.
> >> Regarding the FIELD data, I couldn't see how the data in the arrays
> >> would 'know' whether it was assigned to CELLs or to POINTS.
> >>
> >> OR
> >>
> >> Should I write the whole thing in the XML format?
> >>
> >> Many thanks in advance
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Mattijs
> >
>
>--
>Dominik Szczerba, Dr.
>ETZ C110 CO-ME/BIWI CH-8092 Zurich
>http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~domi
>
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